The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported 65 more cases of COVID-19 across the state and another death on Wednesday. The death toll now stands at 899.
The U.S. has reported the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the world over the last seven days, according to the World Health Organization. The U.S. saw 500,332 new cases (a 131 percent increase) the week ending July 25.
Meanwhile, a COVID-19 cluster in a small Cape Cod town has grown to more than 830 cases. Provincetown officials blame the outbreak on Fourth of July celebrations.
In this July 13, 2021, file photo, Gov. Janet Mills speaks to reporters in her cabinet room in Augusta.
The policy change also recommends mask wearing for those who live with immunocompromised people and for students, staff and teachers in public schools, regardless of vaccination status.
Noah Hartley of Sebec dined outside at Peace, Love & Waffles restaurant in Dover-Foxcroft on Wednesday with his family. Hartley said he has continued wearing a mask even though he is vaccinated.
However, some recalled the stress among customers and staff that the governor’s mask mandate brought earlier in the pandemic.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, center, joined by, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, announces to reporters Wednesday that he and the other GOP negotiators have reached agreement on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill with Democrats and are ready to vote to take up the bill, at the Capitol in Washington.
“Our bill has an historic investment, not only in roads and bridges and airports and seaports and waterways and the electric grid, but also in broadband, and I’m very proud of what all of us have done.”
